Peter Obi’s Political Fall Continues As More Followers Publicly Regret Supporting Him
A 74-year-old retired military officer, Chinyere Obi, has joined the ranks of former die-hard supporters who have now publicly announced their regret for supporting the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, during the 2023 presidential election.
This is as the LP candidate began to witness political Fall following his loss to President Bola Tinubu.
Earlier in June, a social media personality popularly known as edo babe in a viral online video said she regretted supporting Mr Peter Obi as she has discovered that there’s nothing for his supporters in comparison to Tinubu’s followers who are now enjoying the perks of power.
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As though not enough, in quick succession, another social media user who identified himself as emeka chukwu in a viral online video viewed by hundreds of thousands said Peter Obi had deceived many of those who were his core followers with lies and half truths. According to him, Obi has been exposed for his many lies and many his followers known as Obidients now know him for who he truly is.
Many others have also followed suit narrating their experience on social media and how they discovered that the LP candidate is not really who he claims to be.
Numerous Nigerians have also queried why Obi deleted a controversial tweet recently. Obi had in a media reaction blasted President Tinubu over his long convoy during the visit to Lagos, criticizing the President for not being modest in leadership. But when Obi was challenged by social media users and confronted with a viral video of his long convoy during his presidential campaigns, he went mute, leading to the deleting of the controversial tweet.
He has also been exposed for bandying half truths and false statistics on social media during his campaign.
Coming on the heels of Obi’s Political nightmare and crashing public acceptance, Chinyere, in a chat with journalists, had alleged that the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi, abandoned her after she was shot by political thugs in Imo State during the presidential election.
The retired colonel said she regretted due to the fact that neither the party nor the former Anambra governor reached out to her after she was shot in the leg while campaigning for the party’s presidential candidate.
The septuagenarian narrated how she sold her Honda Pilot SUV to fund her medical treatment after the incident, noting that she did not expect the party or Peter Obi to pick up her bills but to show solidarity.
She said, “I had to sell my Honda Pilot Jeep for N1.5 million in June to be able to treat the gunshot wound. At my age, 74, I am selling my things to heal completely. As a retired colonel, I have my pension and entitlements. I wasn’t even asking for money. My anger is that nobody reached out, not even one single person came to the hospital at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri to say sorry.
“I fought and campaigned for Obi, for the youths so that Nigeria can change. I have no need for anything, I am a British citizen and my children are all British citizens. I have nothing to lose or gain, I spent N5 million buying rice, visiting people, women across the country.”
Speaking further on how she was attacked, Madam Chinyere said the problem started when she tried to protect a Labour Party’s polling unit agent in her hometown in Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State.
According to her, on election day, some unidentified political thugs invaded her polling unit and threatened the Labour Party polling unit agent and she tried to intervene.
“The next thing I heard,” she said was “pooh-pooh! There were gunshots on my leg.”
She noted that she is diabetic, adding that the shooting could have led to the amputation of her leg but “nobody from Labour Party, not Abure (referring to LP’s national chairman – Julius Abure) or even Peter Obi sent a word or visited.”
She, however, urged President Bola Tinubu to intensify efforts to end insecurity in Nigeria, especially in the Southeast region. She stated that she was confident in the capacity of President Tinubu and was sure he would end the hardship in the country.
